Table of Weights and Measures
Lengths
Finger | 0.73 inches | 1.85 centimeters | Jeremiah 52:21 |
Handbreadth (4 fingers) | 2.92 inches | 7.42 centimeters | Exodus 25:25 |
Span | 9 inches | 22.86 centimeters | Exodus 28:16 |
Cubit | 18 inches | 45.72 centimeters | Genesis 6:15 |
Long Cubit | 21 inches | 53.34 centimeters | Ezekiel 40:5 |
Rod (6 long cubits) | 10.5 feet | 3.20 meters | Ezekiel 40:5 |
Fathom | 6 feet | 1.83 meters | Acts 27:28 |
Stadion | 607 feet | 185 meters | Luke 24:13 |
Weights
Gerah (1/20 shekel) | 0.0201 ounces | 0.57 grams | Exodus 30:13 |
Beka (1/2 shekel) | 0.201 ounces | 5.70 grams | Genesis 24:22 |
Pim (2/3 shekel) | 0.268 ounces | 7.60 grams | 1 Samuel 13:21 |
Shekel (20 gerahs) | 0.402 ounces | 11.4 grams | Genesis 23:15 |
Minah (50 shekels) | 1.256 pounds | 0.57 kilograms | Ezra 2:69 |
Talent (60 minas) | 75.4 pounds | 34.2 kilograms | Exodus 25:39 |
Litra (Roman Pound) | 12 ounces | 340 grams | John 19:39 |
Liquid Measures
Log | 0.33 quarts | 0.31 liters | Leviticus 14:10 |
Hin (12 logs) | 0.98 gallons | 3.7 liters | Numbers 15:4 |
Bath (6 hins) | 5.8 gallons | 22 liters | 1 Kings 5:11 |
Homer (10 baths) | 58 gallons | 220 liters | Ezekiel 45:11 |
Cor (10 baths) | 58 gallons | 220 liters | Ezekiel 45:14 |
Bath (NT) | 8.7 gallons | 32.9 liters | LUke 16:6 |
Metretes (NT) | 10.4 gallons | 39.4 liters | John 2:6 |
Dry Measures
Cab (1/18 ephah) | 1.1 dry quarts | 1.2 liters | 2 Kings 6:25 |
Omer (1/10 ephah) | 2.0 dry quarts | 2.2 liters | Exodus 16:16 |
Seah (1/3 ephah) | 6.7 dry quarts | 7.3 liters | Genesis 18:6 |
Ephah (10 omers) | 0.624 bushels | 22 liters | Exodus 16:36 |
Lethech (5 ephahs) | 3.12 bushels | 110 liters | Hosea 3:2 |
Homer (10 ephahs) | 6.24 bushels | 220 liters | Leviticus 27:16 |
Cor (10 ephahs) | 6.24 bushels | 220 liters | 1 Kings 4:22 |
Cor (NT) | 10 bushels | 350 liters | Luke 16:7 |